A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

Every communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.

A real leader is somebody who can help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.

Envy is the basis of democracy.

The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing.

The vice presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Do that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.

I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!

Why has the government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.